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FEMALE MIDDLE CLASS EMIGRATION, 27
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In Re-Introducing Tlie Subject Of Female...
and slmt our ears to the licence allowed In some warehouse workrooms . We see with little concern silly mothers teaching by example ,
the solemn if and not a b quick e battle atest y actual - barter field ends precept of of in life the life , , these that . marriage We showy poor str young market ain dress them , souls , the are theatre to just the the entering chi , last ef Ro aims sherville on and the of , gasp
endurance gr then offer them the 2 s . 6 d . Sunday train , and lastly lift found waiting up our amongst - maid yes , a , and d us h . the ands Hemember good In as old tonishmen -fashioned I am not t , that servant decry the ing , Is orderl the no training more y , modest to be of
National schoolmistresses , or opposing , the education of draughtsand working women not ; women rush I know so their shall blindl value reconsider at too teaching well the to question and do that fact , — or of ies all domestic and I ask " s genteel Is ervice , that ,
y , , well employments as the advantages , " without which first such well emp weig loyments hing the offer disadvantages . as
the It false is my position firm belief into which that many their of false these pride women has pushed are full them y alive , and to
; that very many of them regret their inability to undertake or obtain . domestic service in this country .
I remember being particularly struck with the sorrowful history questioned of one woman her , happ closel ily now and on discovered her way to that Canterbury she only . possessed I
cross-\\ d . in the worl very d whi y ch , she could call her own . On my remarking that had I been in her strait I would have gone into
me at service the I have servants , the rep never ' ly reg immediatel been istry out a long in y met service time me , , but before " M the y . name _" ladies Yet has won she been ' was t emp down loy very
. well as , servan qualified t to to her undertake parents all domestic her life work . A , few having lines been from occup her last ied
letter will show that this young person was no ordinary woman ; after recounting her past difficulties , she concluded by saying s
I Miss am very Rye wretched will be angry to-day with ; the me bod , and y rising justly , in when mutiny I tell against her that its
appointed lot , the spirit trying sternly to hold its own over its rude co-worker "
. know It is how especially of for them such are women driven that literall I plead to to . their -day , wits becaus ' end e I ; y
because I believe many that they are capable of fulfilling the duties of and domestic because service 1 feel , with that advantage unless to we the take colonies them and by to the themselves hand and ;
assist them to retrace their , steps , they must go on toiling and suffering who work to onl the during end of the their few existence short days , for of thes their e are earl not y life the , but women are
the toilers who y must toil on _jfco the last . I proposed the introduction of such a class of women to inform into
you Australia how , that last proposition December . was Perhaps received you . will The permit Melbourn me e Herald
Female Middle Class Emigration, 27
_FEMALE MIDDLE _CLASS EMIGRATION , 27
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/27/
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